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Gene race

20 March 1999

The race between companies and a coalition of labs funded by charities and
governments to decipher our genetic blueprint is hotting up. New funding from
Britain’s Wellcome Trust and the US government means the noncommercial project
should have a working draft of the genome by next February. Unlike the
companies, the noncommercial group will put their data straight into the public
domain.